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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are they literally saying they are the same person? That they share the same atoms?

Or is the point that they are the same in the most important ways?

Maybe your disagreement is over what qualities/policies are most important, but accusing them for being blind is easier than addressing the actual disagreement?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The arguments are that Biden is just as bad as Trump.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And it doesn't occur to you to ask by what metrics they think that? All metrics? One metric? A spattering of metrics?

accusing them for being blind is easier than addressing the actual disagreement

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you agree that people on Lemmy are arguing that Biden is just as bad as Trump.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

People on Lemmy are arguing that Biden is just as bad as Trump in the most important ways.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] archomrade@midwest.social -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol, idk I see a few differences between your statement and mine

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] archomrade@midwest.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is that so important? It is implied in the comparison of two people. We aren't comparing unimportant differences between the two. We aren't comparing Biden and Trump's fashion sense or taste in food.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why is that so important?

Because otherwise it sounds like the things they have in common are unimportant, like their fashion sense or taste in food.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You have a vastly different understanding of the English language than most people.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

No, you just disagree that the similarities between them are as important as others think they are.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

No one is thinking that. Wtf

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And this is exactly how nothing ever gets done. Only criticize, never do anything, create the feeling that getting involved is pointless because"they're all the same anyway".

I hate that humans are so awful at nuance. People could absolutely praise and condemn the same person for different actions, instead they want to boil down that person's entire existence to "good, bad, different, same". And we all suffer for that

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

And this is exactly how nothing ever gets done

I disagree, i think insisting on accepting a binary choice is how nothing ever gets done.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

"FPTP DOESN'T EXIST LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALA!"

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So when I said we should be more nuanced... That equals BINARY THINKING FOREVER, or what?

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Not at all, I agree we should be more nuanced, but I think the 'Biden is better than Trump' insistence is what leads to this kind of petty argument to begin with. There's a reason why those people are saying "biden is just as bad as trump" - they're being forced into choosing between them, when the spectrum of available action is much broader than 'vote or don't vote', including leveraging that action as a bargaining chip to improve the options on offer.

people are behaving as if there's nothing to do about Biden's inadequacies, and those are the people who seem to lack nuanced thinking.